English 9 Key Literary Terms And Poetry

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Alliteration

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Repition of sounds in two or more neighboring words. Writers use alliteration to emphasize words, imitate sounds, or create musical effects.

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Antonym

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Word opposite in meaning to another example good and bad

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Foreshadow

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an author’s use of clues toprepare readers for events that will happen laterin the story

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Forcast

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statements or claims, not ment to be taken literary

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Literal meaning

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Taking words in there visual or most basic sense without metaphor

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Mood

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A temporary state of mind or feelin, inducing or suggestive of a particular feeling or state of mind.

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Personification

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A figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to an object, animal, or idea

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Onomatopoeia

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the formation of a word, as meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.

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Point of view (3rd person's)

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The person that is used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anything or to anyone other than the speaker.

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“He goes” contains a pronoun and a verb form in the third person.

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Simile

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a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”.Compare metaphor.

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an instance of such a figure of speech or a use of words exemplifying it.

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Homonym

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Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air;

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Analogy

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Comparison of two different things. See "figurative language," "metaphor," and "simile." Analogies should help a reader better understand what is described, and analogies often do this by comparing unfamiliar things (objects, feelings, experiences) to things more familiar.

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Ballad

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a relatively short narrative poem, writtento be sung, with a simple and dramatic action.The ballads tell of love, death, the supernatural,or a combination of these.

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Flashback

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an interruption in the chronologicalorder of a narrative to describe an earlier event.

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Figurative language

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words that mean morethan their individual meanings and express truthbeyond the literal level

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Foot

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A foot is a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. There are all kinds of feet in poem No toes, no shoes, no soles here, folks. In literary circles, this term refers to the most basic unit of a poem's meter.

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want to be the nerdiest nerd in the nerd herd

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Metaphor

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a figure of speech wherein acomparison is made between two unlikequantities without the use of the words "like" or"as."

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Idiom

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an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usualmeanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one'shead, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the tableround for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a largerexpression of like characteristics.2.a language, dialect, or style of speaking peculiar to a people.

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Idiom can also mean language—as in the local language of a group of people

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Iamb

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a foot of meter. A foot hastwo syllables—one unstressed syllable followedby one stressed syllable.

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1st person -point of view

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narrative is a point of view (who is telling a story) where the story is narrated by one character at a time. This character may be speaking about him or herself or sharing events that he or she is experiencing

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Prior knowledge

(schema)

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narrative is a point of view (who is telling a story) where the story is narrated by one character at a time. This character may be speaking about him or herself or sharing events that he or she is experiencing

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Line

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A basic structural component of a poem. Lines can be written in free form, in syllabic form (e.g. haiku) or in metrical form. In the official classification, metrical lines can vary in length from the monometer (one foot) to the octameter (eight feet).

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Meter

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Is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry. Meter gives rhythm and regularity to poetry.

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Stanza

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One or more lines that make up the basic units of a poem - separated from each other by spacing.

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Stanza forms can also be classified by the number of lines they employ e.g. the couplet, the triplet, the quatrain etc.

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Rules

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Rules of the LimerickThe limerick has a very specific structure. It consists of five lines with the rhyme scheme AABBA. Rhyme scheme is the pattern determining which lines rhyme; a letter of the alphabet represents the rhyming sounds. Rhyme scheme begins with the letter A and uses a new letter for each new ending sound. Thus, in the limerick rhyme scheme AABBA, the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with one another, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other.

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Ode

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a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.historicala poem meant to be sung.

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Sonnet

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a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

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blank verse

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verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

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Haiku

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a Japanese poem which can also be known as a Hokku. AHaiku poem is similar to a Tanka but has fewer lines. A Haiku is a type of poetry that can be written on many themes, from love to nature.

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Rhyme scheme

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the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

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Free Verse

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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

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Freestyle cyper